My root partition is 20 GB and it's full.

I'm still using all the same software I was fifteen years ago when it was 500 MB and mostly empty.

Why are programmers like this? Hardware hasn't meaningfully improved in a decade, but programmers are still continuously bloating up their projects like it's still the '90s and hard drives and processors and RAM are just going to get so good and so cheap that it doesn't matter. They're still running this endless update sprint that means that at least once a year, I have to take a full day to upgrade and then go through all my dotfiles to get everything to work again, because of course not breaking backward compatibility isn't a priority.

What's it all for? Literally no aspect of my computing experience is better than it was ten, twenty years ago—everything is bigger and slower and less convenient—but people keep pouring in effort, and expecting me to pour in commensurate effort, as if we've been building a new world from scratch for years, and we have nothing to show for it except higher version numbers and more money spent on computers that do nothing the old ones didn't.

It's all free software—why do we fall for the capitalist's scam?

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Serving up different websites (or different CSS) for different browser types is over twenty years old

You're out of touch. The old user agent thing is obsolete. Nowadays, responsive design is about changing the site on the fly, not have a separate mobile and desktop website.
Old: separate mobile.example.com and www.example.com code bases
New: single example.com site which changes the look based on the device it's on, based on shit like viewport/max-width instead of user agent.
You can pretend this was a thing 20 years ago, but something existing as a concept only doesn't mean it was ubiquitous. These concepts I am describing are current design trends for web development. 20 years ago my ass. We didn't have iPhones and Android phones 20 years ago. Stop doubling down on your incorrect claims.

I've written and maintained dozens of websites across almost twenty years, and most of them in the last five.

And? Tech changes, man. Software development and technological usage was very different in the past. I'm sure you're very adept at old stuff, but it's different now.

I get it, the sunk cost fallacy is real and it's hard to admit that your professional life is a bad joke at your expense.

Quit projecting, buddy. I'm still in academia and my career is just starting. You, on the other hand, sound like an out of touch boomer.